more than a decade of growth businesses like badasses have been hit hard was the center shopping street in athens is still bustling the problems with the economy means that many businesses here in greece has simply gone and joining the euro in many european prices many of the members with we could mean it didn't mean european wages with one botched after another year of skeptics who wanted danger from the start they have become the unlikely hero is if this tale just who the hell do you think you people are you are very very dangerous people indeed your obsession with creating this euro state means that you're happy to destroy democracy you appear to be happy for millions and millions of people to be unemployed and to be poor untold millions must suffer so that your euro dream to continue if you rob people of their identity you rob them of their democracy but they are left with is nationalism and violence countries are now waking up to the reality of the nightmare that traps and

. the euro is a political prison for poor countries such as greece and spain and they need to be liberated from that prison recreate their own currencies have devaluation make their exports cheaper make it easier for tourists to visit their countries and they'll get back on their feet greece ireland portugal italy spain it dominates continue to topple the year and it seems there will be no happily ever after south. athens. as the eurozone debt crisis shock waves spread the ratings agencies have put the us in the firing line as well america is on the verge of reaching its fourteen point three trillion dollar debt ceiling which means obama and his republican opponents need to strike a swift deal before the government runs out of cash in theory any rate but economics prefer. survive reg tremblay believes that the debt limit will once again

go up as it always has done in american history. the united states is not in the same position as an a out of country this is a country karen say this year was internationally and therefore they can afford to print more dollars than the euro can. parents like but that debt level is very high they raise the debt ceiling each year they will be raised because the president obama has a tradition of caving in to the demands of the republicans it did that he did it twice before so the republicans. expecting that he will do the same it would take the fall of a few days or a few hours before the deadline of august second that could be a similar situation as that happened in one thousand nine hundred four when the representative going which chose the government for a few days or should if you are in the nearly two weeks this held very much to

president clinton at that time to be re-elected in one thousand nine hundred six that's what president obama is hoping now that the republicans will be so extremist than they in two thousand and twelve next year he may be re-elected. later on in the program the formula for prosperity. we look at the driving force of boosting india's economy to make it the tenth largest in the world. and another story of success this time a russian orphan who's become a golf prodigy after being adopted by american parents but his biggest challenge is not in the world of sports but in finding the family be left behind. rupert murdoch has apologized for the news of the world phone hacking scandal with full page ads in seven british national newspapers the media mogul is now working with a team of topping our experts before

a grilling from british m.p.'s on tuesday made public outrage over illegal accessing of the mobiles of murder and terrorism victims and the dead soldiers families the crisis has already forced him to shut the one hundred sixty eight year old newspaper scuttled his bid for b. sky b. and declaimed two of his top executives journalists. says however some are set to benefit from the meltdown at murdoch's media empire. the political class is here finally feel free to up for the first time in decades and decades so i do think appeasing would particularly work everyone is watching for tuesday's committee where rupert murdoch and his son james will appear so it'll be interesting to see that but i think we should remember that the prime minister. and we would probably know it today because it's saturday said the truth is we've all been in this together the press politicians and leaders of all parties and yes that includes me very sorry and i went for democracy in this country and coming through there i

suppose one could say that it was multinationals who are using murdoch in a way so they're lobbying rupert murdoch gets the big companies big multinationals and so forth that seem to get things done by helping m.p.'s behind me perhaps not as bad as in washington. but i do think it's the end of outside influences outside on democratic forces as regards influences on the parliamentarians behind me it is interesting that he owned these newspapers and they always say rupert murdoch loves newspapers he basically had newspapers so that he could manipulate monopoly concerns over his broadcast interests which actually did make money unlike the newspapers newspapers are just a tool as a war he has lots of enemies out there he probably a lot of ammunition to go back at them though thanks to all the muckraking journalists who spent their time. looking at sex scandals really he does have lots of friends one should add but it looks at some m.p.'s have it believable that

he has the right to own any form of media in this country we're about to talk about the united states because that's where it gets really interesting the democratic party in congress is a full on party doesn't really have anything any hope left now that president obama has destroyed his reputation warmongering and and his sort of reaganites economic policies as he deals with the deficit so democrats have nothing much to do but they all hate one particular influential cable channel faux news and i'm hearing that if if the nine eleven victims have been hacked by subsidiaries of news corps then fox news is finished it took it took the most curious cases of hacking phones rather than any kind of regulator ie a body to be able to get murdoch to finally. finally overthrow him as it were is an amazing story we'll be all sure be looking forward to the hollywood

blockbusters and as we've just heard the scandal in britain is now starting to spill over to the u.s. where even bigger trouble could lie ahead for murdoch with reports that phones the victims of the nine eleven terrorist attacks were hacked charges could also result in the u.s. over bribing of british police by staff. as corruption abroad is it legal for american based companies but is an associate going to reports the tabloids keep flying off the show. six drugs cheating and lies phony political scandal flashing dirty laundry brings the made up celebrity gossip and crime stories almost beyond human imagination. old list is served on a platter and sold for a couple of quarters by tabloids headless man in topless bar or something to kids moms in the freezer. like i bought it veteran journalist michael musto is one of millions falling for the bait of catchy headlines even though he

knows the business inside out in america we don't break the law per se but they do have sleazy tactics i mean they will slant a story they probably make up sources i mean when you read them a source. of the source said well who is it is they can just make up the quote themselves joe smith from queen said blah blah blah a lot of times i feel they're just inventing these quotes to back up the thesis of the story fascination with scandal is almost religiously observed in the u.s. and great britain we are both countries in both media environments where gossip sells and there's a tremendous interest in celebrity both countries are a buzz after rupert murdoch's news of the world newspaper phone hacking shocker broke in london his empire stretches far and wide across the u.s. as well let's not forget he owns the new york post the wall street journal and the daily at a protest outside rupert murdoch's big apple pad protesters demanded an investigation into his publications at home we know what does in england because he was caught

and we want congress to investigate what he's doing here in the united states we don't know if newspapers are backing other people in this country yet but i see no reason to put it past them so how far from potential public embarrassment do american newspapers stand by the ones that are owned by rupert murdoch without question the new york post. is one of the most hideous deceitful. tools of criminals that there could be when it comes to getting scandal sold in the u.s. counting on the readers short attention span is a common publishing trick jennifer aniston and brad pitt have gotten together about forty two times so far this year and i haven't seen in part a graph together since two thousand and six they're able to keep selling and repackaging the same story that isn't even a story no publication would admit to paying for. information but that's also often a technicality what a lot of mainstream news publications can get away with doing is even though they won't explicitly give someone money in exchange for an interview someone might set

up a terrible organisation and then the news will happen to donate twenty thousand dollars to that terrible organisation the culture of sensationalism in the press is putting the future of journalism on the line the anglo-american style is it's trashy it's ribald and there's just sort of this snickering tone that is very american and you know we're a juvenile society where young society i don't really know what the brits excuses i mean they've been around a long time but. we blame it on them because we're their children while some will always remain fascinated by tabloids as rags continue to sell others have reached a breaking point i don't have that great of a sense of what happens in britain but i know it's pretty bad here and there are a lot of people who are really upset about the culture of news in america and just how little information so you get out in between all the gossip the press has to be vigilant and in the united states the press has fallen asleep and r.t.e.

new york. reading the newspaper gossip columns has become a daily habit for millions. of people in new york if the phone hacking scandal surrounding murdoch's media will make them change. how it tabloid journalism becomes so influential and so popular in today's world this week let's talk about that i mean people like to read about other people's business. you know. newspapers have to try to compete with the internet. with up to date you know. dirt i think it's absolute try. its nose base in this world for it all i hope they'll go in there. but they're not going under they're increasing in power i don't believe that this is going to be the biggest takedown ever rupert murdoch is going down i think it's more

a pop culture based audience and so the journalists kind of cater to that and in turn it's kind of fun for them to be secret detectives but isn't it terrible i mean it might be fun but it's still criminal acts it's horrible i hate journalists you know whatever that whatever it takes to get the story and her whoever they want you know do you ever do you have that attitude at your job no not at all so what makes journalists special and they're not special they're the opposite of special they have no scruples we have it in the market. because. people. you know they like to n.y.u. they like. to in the money but that's not what journalism supposed to pay what's true but never believe the media's or is it just going to keep getting worse probably do you think journalism like that is bound to spread around the world and become as rampant as it is in britain i do unfortunately and it really isn't

journalism i mean there is no logical reason that you it's garbage the bottom line is that if the rampant popularity of tabloid journalism in the u.k. is any indication the rest of the world should be prepared for their own journalism to get a lot dirtier. emergency crews are to use a special crane boats and lifting equipment to raise the bulgaria cruise ship from the bottom of the volga river after it sank on sunday killing one hundred twenty nine people twenty eight of them children the search operation for fifteen missing bodies continues archies tom barton reports from the site. the two enormous cranes behind me have begun the process of lowering two cables which will then be threaded underneath the ship and used to right it is currently leading on its left side divers will then be able to go under to check for any of the remaining fifteen

bodies that are yet to be found the shores are also being searched for any of those bodies and they'd also be able to search for the potential damage caused to the bulgarian to sink they will eventually find that damage as the ship is ready to be raised and they'll have to seal the hole to let all the water in and any other holes and then all the water inside the bulgarian will be able to be pumped out making it's light enough to be raised the divers though i've got a difficult task ahead of them with me is under a you are digging he's from the emergencies ministry under a could you maybe just tell us a bit about the conditions that the divers are working in. divers are currently working on the river bed but it's really difficult because of crew visibility basically you can't see anything even if it's right in front of you that's why the divers are preparing to lift the ship up there barely able to see

what they're doing obviously this operation now everyone is waiting especially the relatives on the banks will be desperate for news of what has happened to their loved ones and increasingly investigators want to know what caused this ship to sink and sink so fast causing so much tragedy. now let's turn to some other international news in brief we're covering for you today. syrian opposition members have been holding meetings in damascus and to discuss ways of ousting president assad this comes after a massive nationwide protests rocked the country on friday leaving at least thirty two people dead hundreds of thousands of anti-government demonstrators poured onto the streets of the capital and other cities before facing a crackdown by security forces the government has launched a national dialogue but protesters are demanding president assad step down. even as whalen leader hugo chavez has transferred part of his presidential power to

the vice president and minister for finance as he travels to cuba for a new round of cancer treatment he's been given unanimous approval from the national assembly for the trip even from the opposition as his battle with cancer has raised down so over his a fitness to leave the country but he insists he still plans to run for reelection next year. despite warnings from china u.s. president barack obama has held a private meeting with the exiled tibetan spiritual leader the dalai lama the chinese government earlier called on the united states to cancel the talks saying it would generate relations between the two countries the leaders are expected to discuss the dalai lama's hopes for tibet to be semi-autonomous china has accused him of pushing for full tibet in dependence. in vienna thousands of mourners have attended the funeral of the last heir to the austro an empire crowned prince auto was the son of austria is the last emperor and outspoken politician

and advocate for european unity royals and political leaders were among those paying their last respects the prince died earlier this month aged ninety eight and has been buried in the. corrupt. india has recently become one of the top ten largest economies of the world a key driving force is the willingness of indians to work long hours for lower pay doing their western counterparts even reports. it's a busy city with busy people india is a rising economic locomotive still what's the driving force behind its success it could very well be that people like. bulls are co-directors of a small one import company called divine and is indians have developed a strong liking for french and spanish mintage is young men are working overtime to fill their glasses you have to be very flexible with your working hours. in today's

world to go to globalization and because of oh you know you're interacting with so many people from abroad especially america or you know europe so. we can't be fixed by means where we can say we're only going to go from one to five but people in britain for example can and do say that stephan spent years working as a business consultant in the u.k. and he says brits watch that clock closely in britain people leave a five o'clock and they went straight i said because i got a train to catch up for many years in britain and yet there is that some people don't work in britain people don't work weekends it's changing a little bit now particularly in periods of economic recession. but generally it's a monday to friday as recently as just two years ago india had a six day long week the government has put in sticks regulations regarding labor hours but that doesn't stop people from spending more time in the office than

needed to save them a significant difference between the kind of work culture in india and in britain is the pressure of people around to work above and beyond the contracted hours. everyone will do this. irrespective of really if there's work to be done if there is a small enterprise to run then all state regulations go out of the window if sacrifices equal success then you have to make them i'm working twenty four seventh's. working i work on sunday or saturday i'm an office working because the order to be processed that distinguishes being organized so out of. it is nonexistent but what may seem a fine example of dedication may actually be a drawback in the office environment i think people are expected to do the job for two or three people. even though the contract to those might say one thing which isn't always such a good thing because if you work such long hours it's going to affect your

performance while europe and the us spend their money on fighting wars and their time on trying to figure out a way to get out of economic slump india is busy getting things done the indian way lord garnishes probably the most popular god in the entire hindu pantheon in india he is supposed to bring prosperity and success to those who worship him but the success of indian businessmen should not be a trip to the divine help alone ninety five working hours just don't cut it here in the long hours of hard labor but at the end all of that hard work pays off in. new delhi. for more exciting stories and videos. here are some of what you'll find on our website. a ukrainian man goes truly wild planning to spend over a month living with a family of lions while blogging about his experience. also online more than half ton of radioactive blueberries have been found in moscow stores find out more

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on the dot com. the young russian boy has become a golf prodigy after being adopted by american parents but the biggest challenge. lies and not in the world of sports but in the quest to find his birth family or his ego has the story. he might have a smoother swing but from the outside nicholai looks no different to the pampered junior players in this hyper exclusive moscow golf club but this couldn't be further from the truth nikolai come alecky was an eleven year old often when he was adopted by an american family you can never say that or think his life is easy you know and basically there they make you feel like it's nothing you're nothing to me when i came to united states i had a lot of problems emotion that he's an incredible young man he is someone who has

taken on many challenges in his life and he's always overcome then came the gulf one day i just saw my desk going in a golf club in the backyard and he was a seven and i don't remember exactly but i had no idea what it was i just was a piece of metal and i asked him what it was and he told me it was god and then he asked me to he said you want to do want to try and i tried it and i headed straight for my first ball and he said you're playing. despite making headway in sport was one thing nicholai could not get over when he moved to the united states nikolai was separated from his younger sister and brother and lost track of them he rejected several sports scholarship offers at top years colleges to play for the russian national golf team so he could search for his siblings. then this year during a top junior tournament heard news about his sister my whole life. my dad and we have paid a lot of money to different companies to try to find her and then i met

a family out of nowhere and they found there in less than two weeks so to me i never thought that i was ever going to see her again reunited at last nicholai sister and the seer was never adopted she's about to graduate from a school in southern russia. when they heard about my brother and i thought it was a prank my friend played on me i don't remember much about him but i'm going to become close. she just listening i'm going to buy her computer so that we can talk to each other all the time so that we never lose touch again but when you put it earlier back in moscow nikolai has won the prestigious faldo series tournament and will compete against europe stop young players later this year but he says now his priority is finding his brother were can only wish nicholai the best in his dream to become a professional golfer but what he's had to overcome whatever happens next he is already

a winner either overawed now. in moscow. oh and a hole in one right there recap of our top stories coming your way in just a few minutes stay with us. hungry for the full story we've got it first hand the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers on our team.

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have you with us to top headlines the debt crisis rages on both sides of the atlantic eight european banks failed stress tests for their vulnerability to financial troubles. fourteen point three trillion dollars in debt ceiling. floods in the british media with messages days of before a grilling by m.p.'s over the news of the world phone hacking scandal meanwhile the if moves across the atlantic with reports of nine eleven victims phones were targeted as continuing outrage and disgrace his once and credible media.

work is underway to lift a russian cruiser from the bottom of the. operation is aimed at shopping mall. vessel sank with the loss of around one hundred thirty lives. next to spotlight as a guest today is renowned a russian poet. who had a controversial relationship with soviet leaders during the cold war that's coming up next. polo again a welcome to. the show r.t. . today. he's one of the most of the sixty's a time. many of his verses were

a revelation to people who had been fed propaganda. know you spend so much of his time in the united states what is the culture we'll hear about it from the poet himself did. you get any of the shankill stands as one of the most well known contemporary russian poets the world's best universities welcome the lecturing poets and noble prize nominee but every year on his birthday . to moscow to read from the stage of one of the moscow universities this is the place where half a century ago he read his freedom loving verses in what was a severely restricted country. to see if the show. too.